cinque

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In its details, however, the extravagancies of the middle ages, and the often elegant frivolities of the cinque cento period, have been avoided, and the breadth and simplicity of Greek models have still been followed.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 531, January 28, 1832 by Various

The general feeling, even where, as in the Italy of the quattro and cinque centi, everyone was a connoisseur, did not hold the artist to expression in his anatomy as the general Greek feeling did.

From French Art Classic and Contemporary Painting and Sculpture by Brownell, W. C. (William Crary)

For a gammon, play two men only, from the point last mentioned to the cinque point in your own table.

From Hoyle's Games Modernized by Hoffmann, Louis

One is the well-known dicing set, ace, deuce, tray, cater, cinque, size; thus size-ace is 6-1, cinques or sinks, double 5.

From The Number Concept Its Origin and Development by Conant, Levi Leonard

Nui al presento siamo cinque sociale comite come il vedi.

From Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) by Symonds, John Addington